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Movie Review: An all-star Animated tale of “The King of Kings,” as told by Charles Dickens

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The King of Kings” is a compact, cute Life of Jesus served up in animated form for parents to take their kids to this Easter. An all-star voice cast decorates a beautifully animated offering from Angel Studios, produced as the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “A Minecraft Movie,” whether we need it or not

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Say this much for Warner Brothers. They got the tone for “Minecraft” right. The studio that turned Scandinavian Lego building block toys into blockbuster animated movies goes all juvenile in adapting Sweden’s biggest gift to pop culture since ABBA, and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Kidman tries to make “Holland,” Michigan “To Die For”

Posted on March 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

When she read the script for “Holland,” Nicole Kidman must have seen a little of “To Die For,” the dark comedy that was her big break, the movie that set her up for Hollywood fame, Oscars and all that went … Continue reading →

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Richard Chamberlain: 1934-2025, Mr. Miniseries of “Thornbirds” and “Shogun” dies the day before his 91st Birthday

Posted on March 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

Richard Chamberlain, whose death was confirmed today, came to fame as a “teen idol,” the “McDreamy” of his day playing a young physician on the TV version of “Dr. Kildare.” He had a few shots at big screen stardom — … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Luis Buñuel serves up Colonialism’s “Death in the Garden” (1956)

Posted on March 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

Of all the “star entrances” the classic cinema has given us, from the “Stagecoach” rolling up on stranded John Wayne to Orson Welles, glimpsed in the shadows in “The Third Man” and Marlene Dietrich, dolled up and ready to sing … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Jason Statham takes care of business in Ayer’s “A Working Man”

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Brotherhood, the elders of the Russian mafia in America, solemnly gather for a war council in Chicago. “We are facing a devil,” the mobster called Symon (Andrej Kaminsky) intones. And those gathered round him pause to hastily themselves — … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Serious and Seldom Seen Sellers — “The Blockhouse” (1973)

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Filmed on the whim of a liquor empire heir, a “true story” whose German Army WWII victims were changed to French and citizens of other occupied countries, “The Blockhouse” is one of the strangest titles in the later, quixotic career … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Crime and Christian Supernaturalism collide in Korea — “Revelations”

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Revelations,” the new thriller from the director of “Train to Busan” and “Peninsula,” has no zombies. But this collision of crime and punishment, Christianity and psychology is as suspenseful and satisfying as any thriller to come our way this year. … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Michael Mann invents ’80s Cinema — “Thief” (1981)

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s only in retrospect that we recognize the watershed films, the ones that signaled the end of one era and the beginning of another. Michael Mann’s feature film debut “Thief” earned decent enough reviews when it was released in March … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Body Builder is on the Spectrum, Steroided Up and Dangerously Obsessed with his “Magazine Dreams”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Labeling Jonathan Majors‘s turn in “Magazine Dreams” “deeply disturbing” is the epitome of understatement. He plays a body builder whose on-the-spectrum awkwardness and his obsession with building his body and competing with it, an obsession augmented with mood-altering steroids, puts … Continue reading →

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